New York -- Digital media sales outfit Cinetic Rights Management has forged an output deal with Amazon, providing around 20 indie films per month for its Video on Demand and CreateSpace DVD on Demand platforms.
The pact launches today with an Amazon exclusive, Dave McLaughlin's 2007 playwright drama "On Broadway" starring Eliza Dushku and New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre. Select CRM titles will be available exclusively to Amazon customers, and all will be available on VOD to buy for $10 or $3 seven-day rentals.
"Audiences are no longer required to live in a specific city to see new and classic independent film," Crm head Matt Dentler said. "All they need now is an Internet connection."
Among the indie catalog titles CRM hopes to bring to consumers in Amazon's virtual indie video store are Rob Epstein's 1984 doc "The Times of Harvey Milk," Vern Oakley's 1995 romantic comedy "A Modern Affair" starring Stanley Tucci...
The pact launches today with an Amazon exclusive, Dave McLaughlin's 2007 playwright drama "On Broadway" starring Eliza Dushku and New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre. Select CRM titles will be available exclusively to Amazon customers, and all will be available on VOD to buy for $10 or $3 seven-day rentals.
"Audiences are no longer required to live in a specific city to see new and classic independent film," Crm head Matt Dentler said. "All they need now is an Internet connection."
Among the indie catalog titles CRM hopes to bring to consumers in Amazon's virtual indie video store are Rob Epstein's 1984 doc "The Times of Harvey Milk," Vern Oakley's 1995 romantic comedy "A Modern Affair" starring Stanley Tucci...
- 11/13/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Halo-8 Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to the gory horror flick Pink Eye, featuring the writer, director and star of Lionsgate's Skinned Alive.
James Tucker's indie feature, from scribe Joshua Nelson, follows a masked lunatic who escapes a small-town insane asylum where patients are subjected to bizarre drug experiments. Melissa Bacelar stars.
Halo-8 plans a limited theatrical release this summer, followed by a DVD bow Sept. 30.
The distributor, which has focused on cutting-edge features like the animal rights activist documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals, will presents its new line of comics and graphic novels Thursday at the Wizard World Chicago convention.
Matt Pizzolo, director of Halo-8's Threat, wrote two of the publishing arm's first titles.
James Tucker's indie feature, from scribe Joshua Nelson, follows a masked lunatic who escapes a small-town insane asylum where patients are subjected to bizarre drug experiments. Melissa Bacelar stars.
Halo-8 plans a limited theatrical release this summer, followed by a DVD bow Sept. 30.
The distributor, which has focused on cutting-edge features like the animal rights activist documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals, will presents its new line of comics and graphic novels Thursday at the Wizard World Chicago convention.
Matt Pizzolo, director of Halo-8's Threat, wrote two of the publishing arm's first titles.
- 6/25/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Indie distributor Halo-8 Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Curt Johnson's animal-rights documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals, featuring appearances by Katherine Heigl, Moby, Joe Mantegna, Ben Stein and others.
The film from Indie Genius Prods. takes its cue from an FBI report labeling animal-rights activists as a top terrorist threat and attempts to take a balanced look at the issues surrounding their sometimes violent tactics. In addition to getting stars' views on animal rights, Johnson interviewed young members of the activist group SHAC7, who went on trial after their Web site promoted animal-rights protests.
Johnson was a producer on the 2002 Oscar-winning short docu Thoth. His upcoming directing projects include the docu Pets on Your Plate, which follows the quest of a man who alleges that the "food rendering" process takes dead animals and puts them into protein meal fed to livestock people eat.
After a one-week, docu-category Oscar-qualifying run this summer booked by producer-director Johnson before the acquisition, Halo-8 will distribute Animals theatrically in major markets in September and on video via WEA's Ryko Filmworks in November.
The film from Indie Genius Prods. takes its cue from an FBI report labeling animal-rights activists as a top terrorist threat and attempts to take a balanced look at the issues surrounding their sometimes violent tactics. In addition to getting stars' views on animal rights, Johnson interviewed young members of the activist group SHAC7, who went on trial after their Web site promoted animal-rights protests.
Johnson was a producer on the 2002 Oscar-winning short docu Thoth. His upcoming directing projects include the docu Pets on Your Plate, which follows the quest of a man who alleges that the "food rendering" process takes dead animals and puts them into protein meal fed to livestock people eat.
After a one-week, docu-category Oscar-qualifying run this summer booked by producer-director Johnson before the acquisition, Halo-8 will distribute Animals theatrically in major markets in September and on video via WEA's Ryko Filmworks in November.
- 7/13/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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